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Sturgeon Pool

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Type
  
reservoir

Primary outflows
  
Wallkill River

Outflow location
  
Wallkill River

Primary inflows
  
Wallkill River

Basin countries
  
United States

Inflow source
  
Wallkill River

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Sturgeon Pool is a reservoir near the hamlet of Rifton, in the Town of Esopus in Ulster County, New York.

Map of Sturgeon Pool, New York, USA

It was created by damming the Wallkill River just above its confluence with Rondout Creek for hydroelectricity (thus the flow of the Wallkill that reaches the Rondout is greatly attenuated, making the Wallkill a rare instance of a river that drains into a creek).

Writer J MacKinnon says that due to damming of the water supplies and over-fishing, there are now no sturgeon in Sturgeon Pool.

References

Sturgeon Pool Wikipedia